Liver Transplantation: What Every Gastroenterologist Should Know about It

Liver Transplantation (LT) is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage liver disease. Improvement in outcomes (allograft and patient survival) has led to widespread use of LT worldwide. This success is due to improvement in patient selection, transplantation surgery, anesthesia/postoperat...

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Autor principal: Saidi, Reza F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Iranian Association of Gastroerterology and Hepatology 2018
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6040923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30013754
http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/mejdd.2018.93
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spelling pubmed-60409232018-07-16 Liver Transplantation: What Every Gastroenterologist Should Know about It Saidi, Reza F. Middle East J Dig Dis Review Article Liver Transplantation (LT) is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage liver disease. Improvement in outcomes (allograft and patient survival) has led to widespread use of LT worldwide. This success is due to improvement in patient selection, transplantation surgery, anesthesia/postoperative care, and immunosuppression management. This review will focus on different aspects of LT, which every physician should know to provide better patient care. Iranian Association of Gastroerterology and Hepatology 2018-04 2018-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6040923/ /pubmed/30013754 http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/mejdd.2018.93 Text en © 2018 The Author(s) This work is published by Middle East Journal of Digestive Diseaes as an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Liver Transplantation: What Every Gastroenterologist Should Know about It
title_sort liver transplantation: what every gastroenterologist should know about it
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6040923/
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